Economic history

In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today.

This global handbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of shadow banking, or market-based finance as it has been recently coined.

Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape.

This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.

As the center of capitalism in China, Shanghai banking provides a unique perspective for assessing the impact of the changes from financial capitalism to socialist planning banking in the early 1950s, and for evaluating the reform of China's banking system since the 1980s.

This third volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z).

This book tells the story of an academic department that underwent rapid, wrenching changes at a time and in a place that one would not have expected them to have occurred.

First published in 1965.

Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "e;European encounter"e;.

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A.

First published in 1896, this seminal work considers the Question of the Unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism.

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today.

This book presents the complete and pioneering works of the great Spanish economist, German Bernacer (1883-1965), to an English audience for the first time.

The fertility of Adam Smith's work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives.

This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935.

This is a volume of essays exploring important themes in the economic and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the critical period between 1860 and 1930.

Before his untimely death in 2000, the brilliant young Israeli economic historian Klug conducted a thorough survey into the different theories of international trade.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the 'commodity frontier'.

A new way to understand financial crises-and a blueprint for tomorrow's recoveryThe Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis.

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth.

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "e;Fertile Crescent"e; countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "e;copyright"e; very much in its infancy.

Published in 1998.

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English.

This book provides an introduction and overview to seven applied financial studies on the theme of labour.

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy.

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world.

Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system.

This book presents an economic analysis of the causes and consequences of institutional change in ancient Athens.

A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the production, distribution and circulation of goods.

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Constructing Neoliberalism presents a rich analysis of the shift to neoliberal economic policies in four Anglo-American democracies – Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand – over the course of the 1980s and 1990s.

This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy.

There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin.

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production.

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations.

The mood of the international grain market changed remarkably in the decade before this book was originally published in 1986.

Relates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social problems, unless addressed, would weaken their rule.

Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840.

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers.

Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), first Lord Avebury, was a leading figure in the scientific, political and economic world of Victorian Britain, and his life provides an illuminating case study into the ways that these different facets were interlinked during the nineteenth century.

The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

This book proposes that price volatility and speculation in the oil market originate from a decades-long process of financialisation.

This book discusses the period before and after the Soviet collapse and the impact on Georgia's economy and society.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Produktivkräfte und Produktionsverhältnisse in ur- und frühseschichtlicher Zeit" verfügbar.

Capital has dominated the imagination of Western society from the Industrial Revolution.

The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question.

This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire's economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region.